Welcome to www.SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com (“SydneyStudentsAccommodation”). By accessing SydneyStudentsAccommodation you are agreeing to the following terms, which are designed to make sure that SydneyStudenstAccommodation works for everyone. This policy is effective January 1st, 2010.

Using SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com As a condition of your use of SydneyStudentsAccommodation you agree that you will not:

violate any laws; violate the below Posting Rules; post any threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or indecent material; be false or misleading; infringe any third-party right; distribute or contain spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes; distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm SydneyStudentsAccommodation or the interests or property of SydneyStudentsAccommodation users; impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of SydneyStudentsAccommodation; copy, modify, or distribute any other person’s content without their consent; use any robot spider, scraper or other automated means to access SydneyStudentsAccommodation and collect content for any purpose without our express written permission; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent; bypass measures used to prevent or restrict access to SydneyStudentsAccommodation. that you will not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, religiously or otherwise objectionable; that you will not harm minors in any way; that you will not impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; that you will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service; that you will not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); that you will not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (“Rights”) of any party; that you will not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas (such as shopping rooms) that are designated for such purpose; that you will not interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service; that you will not intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, national or international law that you will not “stalk” or otherwise harass another; or that you will not collect or store personal data about other users.

The materials in the SydneyStudentsAccommodation sites are provided without warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. SydneyStudentsAccommodation disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose to the fullest extent permissible by law. What we do We currently provide users with student accommodation resources (herein the “Service”). The services are provided “AS-IS” We assume no responsibility for information posted on this site originated by others, including, but not limited to users and advertisers. You are responsible for any and all costs associated with accessing this site. We do not screen all postings and do not independently verify the information given to us by a user or the information posted on this site. Users should always be cautious about giving personal information to strangers or posting it in a public place where such actions might be used to harm, harass or be used against them.

Fees and Services. Using SydneyStudentsAccommodation is generally free, but we sometimes charge a fee for certain services. If the service you use incurs a fee, you’ll be able to review and accept terms that will be clearly disclosed at the time you post your ad. Our fees are quoted in Australian Dollars, and we may change them from time to time. We’ll notify you of changes to our fee policy by posting such changes on the site. We may choose to temporarily change our fees for promotional events or new services; these changes are effective when we announce the promotional event or new service.

Our fees are non-refundable, and you are responsible for paying them when they’re due. If you don’t, we may limit your ability to use the services. If your payment method fails or your account is past due, we may collect fees owed using other collection mechanisms.

You may cancel your SydneyStudentsAccommodation membership at any time: Log into your account, select the Deactivate my membership link on your member page. Because we provide you with the opportunity to preview all content on the site at no cost and only require payment when you wish to use additional services, we do not offer refunds of purchased time.

Submissions: You are solely responsible for all information that you submit to SydneyStudentsAccommodation and any consequences that may result from your post. We reserve the right at our discretion to refuse or delete content that we believe is inappropriate or breaching the above terms. We also reserve the right at our discretion to restrict a user’s usage of the site either temporarily or permanently, or refuse a user’s registration.

All comments, suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts or other information disclosed or offered to SydneyStudentsAccommodation by this site or in response to solicitations in this site or other sites (collectively, the “Comments”) shall be deemed and shall remain the property of None of the Comments shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of and shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Comments. Without limitation of the foregoing, SydneyStudentsAccommodation shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the Comments of every kind and nature throughout the universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the Comments for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Comments. Unless otherwise specified, the materials in the site are presented solely for the purpose of promoting room mate matches and apartment listings available in the United States.

This site is controlled and operated by SydneyStudentsAccommodation. Whoever chooses to access this site from other locations does so on their own initiative and is responsible for compliance with local laws.

Content. SydneyStudentsAccommodation contains content from us, you, and other users. SydneyStudentsAccommodation is protected by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or via SydneyStudentsAccommodation is protected as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws and international conventions. You agree not to copy, distribute or modify content from SydneyStudentsAccommodation without our express written consent. You may not disassemble or decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in SydneyStudentsAccommodation. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, copy, sell, resell, or exploit for any purposes any aspect of SydneyStudentsAccommodation (other than your own content). When you give us content, you are granting us and representing that you have the right to grant us, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights to that content.

No Material from www.SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written permission of SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com. In the event you download software from the site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the “Software”) are licensed to you by SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com, does not transfer title to the Software to you. You own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but retains full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein.You may not re-sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software.

You understand that your Content may be transmitted over a number of different networks and people other than those on this site could gain access to it

Reporting an infringement: In order to participate in the Notice of Infringement Programme, you only need to complete a Notice of Infringement Form and fax it to SydneyStudentsAccommodation. You can use this form, complete with your signature, to report advertisements which may infringe on your property rights.

The information requested in the Notice of Infringement Form is for the purpose of ensuring that the parties reporting these objects are either the entitled party or their officially authorized representative. This information must also enable SydneyStudentsAccommodation to identify the advertisement to be removed. Once we have received your correctly completed Notice of Infringement Form, you can simply send later reports to SydneyStudentsAccommodation via the e-mail address provided.

Note: This form can only be used by the lawful owners of the intellectual property rights. “Notice of Infringement” is intended to ensure that products offered do not infringe the copyright, trademark right or other intellectual property rights of third parties. For all other questions, visitors and advertisers can get Help using SydneyStudentsAccommodation Help.

SydneyStudentsAccommodation reserves any and all rights to intellectual property and copyright laws. We reserve the right to refuse to list any member for any reason, or to edit content, should we feel it is inappropriate for our service. We will do so especially if any inconsistencies, untruths or any attempt to harass or defraud us or any of our members or potential members are found. Any client who is de-activated for such reason will not be entitled to any service fee refund of any kind. Furthermore, should infringement and criminal activity violate the integrity of our service or business, we will press charges.

Such includes illegal use of the information we provide, distribution of the list for any purpose other than for the individual, personal use of finding a room mate. The use and distribution of the SydneyStudentsAccommodation name, reputation, information, content in any medium or web page may not be used in any way (other than for personal intended use of finding a room mate or a tenant an apartment) without the expressed, written consent of SydneyStudentsAccommodation. Punitive damages of $10,000 per occurrence (login, search or listing copy) will be charged along with potential legal recourse.

Without limiting other remedies, we may issue warnings, limit or terminate our service, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep users off SydneyStudentsAccommodation if we think that they are creating problems or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our policies. However, whether we decide to take any of these steps, remove hosted content or keep a user off SydneyStudentsAccommodation or not, we do not accept any liability for monitoring SydneyStudentsAccommodation or for unauthorized or unlawful content on SydneyStudentsAccommodation or use of SydneyStudentsAccommodation by users.

Liability.

SydneyStudentsAccommodation does not endorse any listing; we do not make any representations as to individual character, credit worthiness, rental history or ability to pay rent or provide accommodation. SydneyStudentsAccommodation CANNOT be held responsible for any events that transpire through use of our service. It is each member’s responsibility to determine the character and acceptability of any prospective roommate, tenant or landlord. SydneyStudentsAccommodation is not and will not be responsible for error or omissions that may occur, consequential or other wise.

Nothing in these terms shall limit our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our agents or employees. You agree not to hold us responsible for things other users post or do.

We do not review users’ postings and are not involved in the actual transactions between users. As most of the content on SydneyStudentsAccommodation comes from other users, we do not guarantee the accuracy of postings or user communications or the quality, safety, or legality of what’s offered. In no event do we accept liability of any description for the posting of any unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or indecent information, or material of any kind which violates or infringes upon the rights of any other person, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law.

We cannot guarantee continuous, error-free or secure access to our services or that defects in the service will be corrected. While we will use reasonable efforts to maintain an uninterrupted service, we cannot guarantee this and we do not give any promises or warranties (whether express or implied) about the availability of our services.

Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted we expressly disclaim all warranties, representations and conditions, express or implied, including those of quality, merchantability, merchantable quality, durability, fitness for a particular purpose and those arising by statute. We are not liable for any loss, whether of money (including profit), goodwill, or reputation, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your use of SydneyStudentsAccommodation, even if you advise us or we could reasonably foresee the possibility of any such damage occurring. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.

Despite the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or any third party (whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability in tort, by statute or otherwise) is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you pay to us in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to liability, and (b) 100 dollars Australian.

Termination: This agreement is effective until the end of the terms of agreement stated above. You may terminate this agreement at any time by deactivating your membership on our web site, and destroying all materials obtained from any and all SydneyStudentsAccommodation and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice from SydneyStudentsAccommodation if in SydneyStudentsAccommodation’s sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and any and all other SydneyStudentsAccommodation site(s) and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise.

Limitation of Liability Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall SydneyStudentsAccommodation be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this site, even if SydneyStudentsAccommodation or an SydneyStudentsAccommodation authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Personal Information. By using SydneyStudentsAccommodation, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of your personal information by SydneyStudentsAccommodation on servers located in the Netherlands, United States and China as further described in our Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive marketing communications from us unless you tell us that you prefer not receive such communications.

Resolution of disputes If a dispute arises between you and SydneyStudentsAccommodation, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution by going to the SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com Help page. We will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation or arbitration, as alternatives to litigation.

General. These terms and the other policies posted on SydneyStudentsAccommodation constitute the entire agreement between SydneyStudentsAccommodation and you, superseding any prior agreements.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall be governed and construed in all respects by the laws of Australia. You agree that any claim or dispute you may have against SydneyStudentsAccommodation.com Limited must be resolved by the courts of Australia. You and SydneyStudentsAccommodation both agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Australian Courts.

If we don’t enforce any particular provision, we are not waiving our right to do so later. If a court strikes down any of these terms, the remaining terms will survive. We may automatically assign this agreement in our sole discretion in accordance with the notice provision below.

This agreement may be changed at anytime and without notice. This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the States in which SydneyStudentsAccommodation operates, giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified except in writing, signed by both parties.

A link to a service or site outside of the SydneyStudentsAccommodation web site is not an endorsement of the service or site, its content, or its sponsoring organization. By using this site, you fully signify your assent to these terms of use.

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